Title
John Hill Curry, 1902-1994
Subject
Curry, John Hill, 1902-1994
Furniture
Description
John Hill Curry was selling furniture in Tuscaloosa before all the streets were paved and founded John Curry Furniture Company in downtown Tuscaloosa at the retirement age of 65.
Curry was a descendant of an early pioneer family in Pickens County. He was born in Olney in Pickens County where he grew up, the son of a farmer. He managed a sawmill by himself at the age of 16. When his only brother, Ellis, was killed in a sawmill accident, Curry left home and entered Massey Business College in Birmingham with only and eighth-grade education and got his first job in the furniture business in Greenwood, Miss.
Throughout the Depression, he worked at Alabama Furniture Co. in downtown Northport until it closed, a victim of the Depression. He went to the main store, C. W. Lewis Furniture Co. in downtown Tuscaloosa where he worked as a buyer and salesman until 1945 when he opened Druid Furniture for Mrs. George Bell and Jack Gibson.
At retirement age 65, he opened John Curry Furniture in the old Temerson Building on 4th Street.
Curry's obituary was published in The Tuscaloosa News on July 25, 1994.
Curry was a descendant of an early pioneer family in Pickens County. He was born in Olney in Pickens County where he grew up, the son of a farmer. He managed a sawmill by himself at the age of 16. When his only brother, Ellis, was killed in a sawmill accident, Curry left home and entered Massey Business College in Birmingham with only and eighth-grade education and got his first job in the furniture business in Greenwood, Miss.
Throughout the Depression, he worked at Alabama Furniture Co. in downtown Northport until it closed, a victim of the Depression. He went to the main store, C. W. Lewis Furniture Co. in downtown Tuscaloosa where he worked as a buyer and salesman until 1945 when he opened Druid Furniture for Mrs. George Bell and Jack Gibson.
At retirement age 65, he opened John Curry Furniture in the old Temerson Building on 4th Street.
Curry's obituary was published in The Tuscaloosa News on July 25, 1994.
Source
Tuscaloosa News Archive
Publisher
The Tuscaloosa News
Date
1994
Contributor
Betty Slowe (Description)
Type
Photograph
Identifier
899
Coverage
Tuscaloosa (AL)
Original Format
Photograph
Physical Dimensions
3 inches x 4 inches